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House Narrowly Passes Budget Blueprint With $100 Billion For Defense

House Narrowly Passes Budget Blueprint With $100 Billion For Defense
House Speaker Mike Johnson gives his remarks in honor of WWII Ghost Army veterans, formerly assigned to the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops and the 3133rd Signal Service Company, during a special ceremony at Emancipation Hall, U.S. Capitol Visitors Center in Washington, D.C., March 21, 2024. (U.S. Army photo by Henry Villarama)

The House on Tuesday evening narrowly passed a budget resolution that sets a blueprint for passing Trump administration priorities via the reconciliation process, to include spending $100 billion on defense over four years. The 217-215 vote along party lines to pass the measure followed uncertainty in the House over Republican holdouts who sought deeper spending cuts, to include GOP leadership pulling the measure and then immediately putting it back on the floor when the necessary votes had been secured. “Today,…

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